(X-Men II#40 (fb) - BTS) - When Legion (David Haller) decided to help his father Charles Xavier by traveling into the past to kill Magneto, Bishop and his fellow X-Men tried to stop the omnipotent, but mentally unstable mutant. After an unsuccessful engagement in the Negev desert, they were unwittingly drawn into his temporal void and wound up twenty years in the past. Because of Legion's unconventional method of time travel, Bishop and his teammates were left with fragmented memories.
(X-Men II#40 (fb) - BTS) - Bishop and his teammates Storm, Iceman and Psylocke found themselves in the port town of Haifa. Only remembering each other's names, they spent the next two weeks looking for clues to their true identities.
(X-Men II#40) - Bishop and the others discovered they had extraordinary abilities, but despite Psylocke's best efforts to psi-probe their minds, they failed to regain their full memories.
(Uncanny X-Men I#321 (fb) - BTS) - Bishop and Iceman took jobs as dock workers to earn some money while Psylocke continued to work with Storm to restore her memory.
(Uncanny X-Men I#321) - After a week of hard manual labor and frustratingly little to show for it, Bishop vented his anger about the situation to his teammates. A little later, he was stunned when the ambient consciousness of Cable suddenly appeared before him. The X-Men ally had been sent through time to remind Bishop and the others of their mission: stop Legion. Cable quickly realized he was drawn to Bishop because, as a native of Earth-1191, he was already a temporal anomaly that served as an anchor of sorts. Instinctively trusting this strange apparition, Bishop allowed Cable to touch him. As a result, he and the other X-Men regained their memories.
(X-Men II#41) - It
didn't take the X-Men long to locate Legion, since he was already
engaged in aerial combat over Haifa with Erik Magnus Lensherr, the
future Magneto. The X-Men realized the past had now been changed and
tried their best to keep civilians safe from harm. Bishop attempted to
absorb stray energy blasts from the fight.(X-Men II#41) - BTS) - Apocalype watched media coverage of Legion and Erik's fight. Seeing powerful mutants out in the open a decade earlier than his ally Mr. Sinister had predicted, En Sabah Nur decided to launch his war against humanity immediately.
(X-Men II#41) - The X-Men briefly succeeded in immobilizing Legion when Iceman flash froze him. But he soon recovered and was now in an ideal position to kill Lensherr. At the last possible moment, Erik's friend Charles Xavier jumped in and caught the lethal psychic blast meant for Magnus. Xavier instantly perished, causing the timeline to forcibly correct the temporal paradoxes that Xavier's demise had caused. But Bishop, being a temporal anchor, remained.
(X-Men II#41 - BTS) - Bishop's mind was damaged by the raging temporal energies that reclaimed his teammates. Hurt, confused and suffering from a form of temporal psychosis, he wandered off into the distance while Erik Magnus Lensherr cradled the body of his deceased friend and vowing to fight for his dream of a peaceful future for both humans and mutants.
(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - BTS) - For the next twenty years, Lucas Bishop survived in a world that never quite seemed his own. Though his fragmented memory and damaged mind made it hard for him to act, he tried his best to help out wherever he could. He eventually managed to make his way back from Palestine to North America.
(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - BTS) - With no real home to call his own, Bishop wandered while Apocalypse was on the rise in North America. He spent time in Canada, which saw an influx of American refugees. Eventually, he left the northern territories because he felt inexplicably drawn to the atrocities Apocalype's forces were committing during their take-over of the continent.
(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Bishop's
trek led him to Seattle where Apocalype's Infinites were culling the
human population. He climbed over mountainous piles of corpses,
eventually coming across a lone human child, her family's sole
survivor. She begged him for help, but they were soon confronted by
prelate Unus and his Infinites who had come to finish the job.
Unaware he was a mutant, Unus decided to make an example of Bishop
by crushing him in his forcefield. When Bishop effortlessly absorbed
the field's energies, Unus realized the truth about him and ordered
his troops to kill the "race traitor". Bishop was saved by the
arrival of Magneto and his X-Men who had come to Seattle to
investigate reports of the cullings. (X-Men Alpha I#1 - BTS) - While the X-Men engaged his troops, Unus figured he could take out Magneto with a plastic gun loaded with non-ferrous shells. However, Iceman killed Unus before he could even fire a single round. At the same time, Sabretooth tried to question Bishop, but when he proved uncommunicative, Blink was sent to get Magneto.
(X-Men Alpha I#1) - When Magneto approached, Bishop recognized him and rushed to attack Magnus, shouting cryptic phrases about their shared past until Magneto put him to sleep by magnetically slowing the flow of blood to his brain. Magneto ordered the team to take the mysterious mutant home with them.
(X-Men Alpha I#1) - When they tried to talk to Bishop, he continued to accuse Magneto of having something to do with Charles Xavier's demise. Magneto thought it best Bishop kept silent and knocked him out again. Without any active telepaths on the team, Magnus decided it would be best if he guided Rogue in absorbing Bishop's memories to learn what he knew.
(X-Men Alpha I#1) - The risky experiment created an unexpected feedback loop that made Magneto and Rogue relive the history of Earth-616 and how that reality turned out for the better with Charles Xavier in it.
(X-Men Alpha I#1 - BTS) - Rogue dismissed what she saw as a mere dream, but Magneto was deeply shaken when he realized their world was wrong and had to be altered by changing time itself. He ordered Nightcrawler to reach out to his mother and had Rogue send word to Colossus and Shadowcat while he prepared the X-Men and their allies for the difficult tasks ahead.
(Generation Next I#1 - BTS) - Bishop accompanied Magneto when he decided to give orders to Colossus, Shadowcat and their students in person. They traveled across two hot zones and the prairie before reaching the Tomb, a castle in the Rocky Mountains used to train the next generation of mutant heroes.
(Generation Next I#1) - Magneto introduced Bishop to Colossus and Shadowcat and their pupil, the technopath Know-it all who Magneto asked to look for any chrono-variant mutants they could recruit to help the restore the proper timeline. Know-it-all eventually came up with Illyana Rasputin, the long lost younger sister of Colossus.
(Astonishing X-Men I#1 - BTS) - After returning to Westchester, Magneto continued to prepare the X-Men and their associates for the multiple threats they faced: from Bishop's claims to stopping the cullings and helping the Human High Council's Sentinel Fleet evacuate as many people from the eastern seaboard as possible. In a private meeting with Nightcrawler, Magneto confessed he had vague memories of seeing Bishop when Xavier died.
(Astonishing X-Men I#1) - Bishop watched Rogue and her handpicked team of X-Men take off for Chicago to stop Holocaust and his Infinites from continuing the cullings. Talking to Quicksilver, he wondered why they were throwing their lives away in an attempt to achieve the impossible. Quicksilver, still doubting Bishop's claims of hailing from a better world, had no patience for this: "This may not be much of world, may not even be the world it is supposed to be. But it is our world nonetheless. And we will fight for it." Bishop quietly agreed.
(Amazing X-Men I#1) - Bishop, Magneto, Nanny and watched Quicksilver's X-Men team prepare for their upcoming mission to Maine to aid in the evacuation effort of the East Coast. Bishop was now trusted enough to be allowed to hold Magneto's infant son Charles. However, Iceman remained suspicious of the newcomer's presence. All Bishop could tell Drake was that this world felt wrong, even as young Charles tweaked his nose. Magneto then ordered his team away by allowing the powerful but insecure Exodus to discover he possessed the ability to teleport. After Exodus spirited his teammates away, Magneto confided in Bishop that he had tried for years to prevent Paris from using his powers to the fullest for fear it might corrupt him.
(X-Man I#1) - Bishop was arguing with Magneto over sending away the X-Men on dangerous missions without telling them the whole truth. Magneto was convinced he had done the best he could and refused to be judged. Their argument was briefly witnessed by young Nate Grey who was eavesdropping in psionic form.
(Astonishing X-Men I#2) - Much to Bishop's dismay, Magneto took the time to enjoy a quiet moment with his son, holding the helpless boy in his arms while he slept. When Magneto told Bishop that he wasn't sure he could sacrifice his son's life to recreate the world in its proper order, Bishop repeated his earlier claims about this reality being a kind of cosmic accident. All of this didn't matter to Magneto: to him, all Charles was is love and love is never an accident. He asked Bishop to give him tonight to say goodbye to his child.
(Amazing X-Men
I#2 - BTS) - Apocalypse, having learned the location of Magneto's
base, ordered his troops to prepare for an assault which he
intended to lead himself.(Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 - BTS) - When Apocalypse learned of Bishop's existence, he dedicated an entry to the mutant in his files. En Sabah Nur deemed Bishop worthy enough to be counted among his Chosen, reasoning that the mutant was a man of mystery who upset all the players and pawns that he had carefully maneuvered on his chessboard. Intrigued by his claims of alternate worlds, Apocalypse intended to know more about the world he claimed to come from.
(Astonishing X-Men I#3) - Magneto was preparing Bishop for his own mission: going back into their shared past to kill Legion. Magneto wanted to make sure Bishop would be capable of pulling the trigger at the right moment, even slapping him around when Bishop tried to reason that killing was wrong. Their session was cut short when Nanny's sensors picked up a security perimeter breach. Immediately switching to Defcon: Armageddon, the robotic nursemaid grabbed Charles and turned her body into an impenetrable cocoon. Nanny then dropped through the floor to the labyrithine sewers below the mansion. With Charles relatively safe and secure, Magneto and Bishop decided they'd best prepare for the coming attack.
(Amazing X-Men I#3 (fb) - BTS) - When the mansion's meager defense fields also registered a perimeter security breach, Bishop and Magneto went out to patrol the grounds. Magneto handed Bishop an energy blaster for added protection.
(Amazing X-Men I#3) - During the
patrol, Bishop caught Magneto idling at Charles Xavier's gravesite. He
angrily reminded him they didn't have time for this and even pulled the
gun on him. Unimpressed, Magneto calmly asked the time-tossed mutant to
fire over his shoulder, having already sensed the electromagnetic
disturbance caused by his old foe Vanisher who briefly teleported in to
drop off a squad of Infinites. Bishop and Magneto made short work of the
Infinites, but were ill-prepared for Apocalypse who joined the fray and
easily defeated Bishop and Magneto.(Amazing X-Men I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Magneto was taken to Apocalypse's citadel while Bishop was handed over to the Madri who brought him to their consecrated temple in Quebec for ritualistic questioning. When Quicksilver and his team returned home to find the mansion devastated, it didn't take them long to realize Magneto would want them to rescue Bishop first. After learning what had happened from the information peddler Angel, they left for Quebec.
(Amazing X-Men I#4 (fb) - BTS) -Bishop suffered at the hands of the Madri for two days. They siphoned his memories with aid from the Shadow King, all the while poking and prodding their prisoner with knives. They subjected the silent mutant to their rituals which included bloodletting and hours of holy chanting to "clear his blood".
(X-Men Omega I#1 (fb) - BTS) - As a result of the Madri siphoning off Bishop's memories, Apocalypse learned of a timeline where he did not rule. He set out to make sure Magneto's plans to restore that world would fail.
(Amazing X-Men I#4 - BTS) - The X-Men attacked the Madri temple, with Banshee and Quicksilver locating Jamie Madrox, whose mutant cloning abilities led to the creation of Apocalypse's order of religious zealots.
(Amazing X-Men I#4) - Elsewhere in the temple, Storm took out the Madri priests before they could complete their bizarre rituals. Storm freed Bishop with her lockpicks, but they still had to fight their way out of the Madri temple which seemed impossible until Jamie Madrox willed himself to death, causing the Madri who were clones to perish as well. The X-Men took Bishop back to the Xavier Estate where they were met by their teammates and various allies who had all returned from their missions. Bishop joined the others in the final assault on Apocalypse's citadel to free Magneto and set the timeline right.
(X-Men Omega I#1) - Bishop and his allies successfully breached Apocalype's citadel and managed to free Magneto as well. He watched Magneto prepare Illyana Rasputin for her task. When she remained doubtful, he assured the scared young girl that in the world they were trying to recreate there still remained the possibility of hope for a better future. A world without the fear, prejudice and hatred that claimed this one. Bishop then followed Illyana and the blind seer Destiny into the ever expanding M'Kraan crystal that Apocalypse had already managed to get his hands on. Guided by Destiny, Illyana opened a portal to the proper point in the past which Bishop entered to complete the mission.
(X-Men Omega I#1) -
Arriving back in Haifa twenty years in the past, Bishop had a brief
encounter with his younger self who tried to stop him. With no time to
waste, Bishop knocked his counterpart out, while telling him to remember
this moment. He then interrupted the final moments of Legion's fight
with Magnus. He took the brunt of Legion's lethal psi-blade by absorbing
and instantly unleashing the energy. This created a feedback loop that
proved fatal to Legion. With Charles Xavier and Magnus looking on,
Bishop held the dying Legion in his arms, using his final moments to
berate the boy for wasting his potential and creating a nightmare world.
Once Haller died, Bishop vanished as well, while his younger self and
the X-Men were all drawn back to their proper timeline.(X-Men Prime I#1 - BTS) - As a result of encountering his alternate self in the past, Earth-1191's Bishop found himself plagued by the vague, distorted memories of his Earth-295 counterpart. Fearing he was going crazy, he sought the counsel of Charles Xavier who reasoned this was caused by the fact he was already a chronal anomaly before going back to the past. Still, even the professor had no real answers for him either.